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EWG Overall Score Breakdown
The product score is based on weighted scores for nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns. Generally, nutrition counts most, ingredient concerns next and degree of processing least. The weighted scores are added together to determine the final score. Read more about scores here.
EWG scored on three factors: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and the degree of processing. Read the full scoring methodology.
Considers calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, protein, fiber and fruit, vegetable and nut content to differentiate between healthful and less healthful foods. For more information on nutrition concerns, read our full methodology.
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Canola Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains 29% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Corn Syrup Solids and Sugars [read more]
Considers food additives, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and contaminants like mercury and BPA, which can affect human health and the environment. For more information on ingredient concerns, read methodology.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
This product has 8 ingredients with concerns:
Estimates how much the food has been processed. Considers many factors, chief among them, modification of individual ingredients from whole foods and number of artificial ingredients. For more information on processing concerns, read our full methodology.
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
Products with moderate and high processing concerns generally have more artificial ingredients, more ingredients that have been significantly modified from whole foods, and more ingredients overall.
This product is not certified organic [read more]
Contains food additives of moderate concern
Antibiotics were likely used in the production of this meat [read more]
Hormones and/or growth promoters were likely used in production of meat ingredients [read more]
Contains ingredients that may contribute small amounts of unhealthy artificial trans fats: Canola Oil and Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids [read more]
Contains the non-specific ingredient "flavor" [read more]
Contains 29% of the Institute of Medicine's daily sodium (salt) recommendations based on adequate intake [read more]
This product contains added sugar ingredients: Corn Syrup Solids and Sugars [read more]
Product has been classified as having high processing concerns
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WATER, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), COOKED PORK BREAKFAST TOPPING (COOKED PORK SAUSAGE [PORK, SEASONING {SALT, SPICES, SUGAR, CARAMEL COLOR}, WATER], WATER, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN [SOY FLOUR, CARAMEL COLOR], SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE), COOKED SCRAMBLED EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, SKIM MILK, SOYBEAN OIL, CORN STARCH, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID), REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SKIM MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH*, CULTURES, SALT, FLAVORS*, POTASSIUM SALT*, ANNATTO, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ENZYMES, *INGREDIENTS NOT IN REGULAR CHEDDAR CHEESE), VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL), 2% OR LESS OF SUGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, FRACTIONATED PALM OIL, WHEY, DOUGH CONDITIONER BLEND (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, ENZYMES [WHEAT]), BUTTERMILK POWDER, YEAST, NATURAL FLAVOR, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), EMULSIFIER (MONOGLYCERIDES, 2% OR LESS OF ASCORBIC ACID [ANTIOXIDANT], CITRIC ACID [ANTIOXIDANT]), DRIED EGG YOLKS, CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), ENZYME MODIFIED CHEDDAR CHEESE, SODIUM CASEINATE, ANNATTO AND TURMERIC COLOR, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, DRIED GARLIC, LACTIC ACID BLEND (LACTIC ACID, CALCIUM LACTATE), ENZYME MODIFIED MILK FAT, ACETIC ACID, CALCIUM HYDROXIDE, CALCIUM LACTATE, CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, DRIED ONION, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, METHYLCELLULOSE, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES.
Products remain in the database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores. A product with label information last recorded more than a year ago is marked with an * identifying it as an older product.
Products remain in the Database for two years after their label information is recorded in stores, even when they have been discontinued (products may remain in stores and pantries long past the date they cease to be manufactured). EWG marks a product it is aware has been discontinued with a banner identifying it as such.
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This product contains the following ingredient(s) that may be genetically engineered or derived from GE crops: Corn Starch, Corn Syrup Solids, Canola Oil, Sugars, Soy Flour, Vegetable Oil, Textured Vegetable Protein, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Mono And Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, and Soy Protein [read more]
Environmental Impact: Contains pork, which has a higher carbon footprint relative to chicken, eggs and plant proteins.
Environmental Impact: Contains eggs, which have a lower carbon footprint than meat.
Contains ingredients derived from milk, wheat, soybean or egg - these are considered major food allergens according to the FDA [read more]
1.0 servings per container
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